Monday, January 16, 2012

Winning hearts and minds by pissing on corpses

Another disgraceful example of the West behaving offensively, another propaganda home goal to justify resistance to this immoral occupation that we will never win.

How terribly depressing.

Jon Stephenson (who again won the Bayeux-Calvados award for war correspondents despite the attempt by John Key to smear and defame him) and Nicky Hagar (who continues to call the NZ military on their lies in Afghanistan despite their attempts to smear and defame him) have done more work than any other NZ journalists to point out the spin in us being in Afghanistan.

We now know our military disregarded the orders of the Helen Clark Government, we now know that the CIA have covertly used our forward bases, we now know that the supposed rebuilding our forces have conducted are worthless, we now know we handed civilians over to known torture units, we now know that our forces have been actively killing rather than 'mentoring' and we now know that the mainstream media have been led like fools by the NZ Military propaganda department.

Let's not pretend we don't know these things, and images of Soldiers urinating on dead corpses is really the shit icing on a very obvious shit cake.

The obvious problem of desecrating the bodies of our enemies, (no matter how offensive 'their' actions or unjustifiable 'their' killings of civilians) is that it utterly destroys our pretense of winning hearts and minds.

There is no military solution in Afghanistan, ask anyone of the Empires wrecked on those jagged mountains. Our farce 'fighting terrorism' justifications for occupying Afghanistan are as empty as our promises of freedom and democracy by propping up a corrupt narco state.

By desecrating these bodies, the West simply erodes any moral high ground the West once had in this idiotic war.

It cost $40 million last year for us to occupy Afghanistan, it would only cost $30 million to feed every child in decile 1, 2 and 3 schools. Don't tell me we are fighting for freedom and democracy, we are fighting to prop up a corrupt regime while starving our own kids at home so John Key can cuddle with America.